10 Songs I Cannot Live Without

(in no particular order)

• Take on Me – A-ha
• Here Today – The Beach Boys
• Through the Long Night – Billy Joel
• Colors – Amos Lee
• American Pie – Don McLean
• I’ve Got a Name – Jim Croce
• Come on Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
• Romeo’s Tune – Steve Forbert
• Sleeping with the Television On – Billy Joel
• A Day in the Life – The Beatles

I absolutely love and require all of these songs, but they hardly represent the extent of the music I love.  There are so many artists and bands that I really wanted to be represented on this list such as Queen, (early) Maroon 5, Elton John, etc., but a list of only ten is far too limiting to include all of them.  You may be wondering why I talk of a lack of representation of certain bands and artists but include two songs from Billy Joel.  Well, the best answer I can give is that I really like Billy Joel, and to tell the truth, there should probably be more of his music on this list.  If I could, I’d include entire albums from Billy Joel such as Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain, Cold Spring Harbor, River of Dreams, and pretty much every other album by him.  I’d also like to include the entire Pet Sounds album by the Beach Boys which I very unfortunately had to leave off songs from such as Wouldn’t It Be Nice, God Only Knows, Hang Onto Your Ego, etc.  I’d also like to recommend songs from Jim Croce such as Box #10, Operator, One Less Set of Footsteps, and many others.  I could talk for hours about the songs that should be on this list such as those from musicals like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rent, Les Mis, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, and others, but I would never finish talking about how many songs I love because of how important music is to me.  There is no single list of songs that would represent the ten songs that I would be fine listening to in addition to no other songs because I need a far wider variety of music, but this list is the closest that I can come.

Author: Jackson Palmer

Jackson Palmer is a student studying literature at the Mississippi School of the Arts. He hopes to use the education he obtains there to write novels, short stories, poetry, and scripts for movies, television, and theater productions. Additionally, he would like to write within a number of genres such as comedy, drama, horror, etc. Some of his favorite writers and influences include Billy Joel, John Steinbeck, and Dan Harmon. He hopes to explore concepts and systems of thought such as existentialism, nihilism, and fulfillment within his writing. He would like to thank you visiting his blog and hopefully reading his work. View all posts by Jackson Palmer